In the past few decades, there have been countless cases of killing people and destroying families, taking their wives and daughters as concubines and slaves for sexual pleasure. Fierce women who are truly unwilling to be humiliated and do not hesitate to die with the enemy and thieves.
But it's extremely rare.
After all, as long as we are human, we will have a strong desire to survive.
Therefore, Han Qian kept Mrs. Xi by his side. Gao Shao, Tian Cheng and the others just thought that they should keep a closer eye on her in the early stage, and slowly resolve her desire to fight to the death. They did not think that a desperate woman would be able to do anything even if she practiced her skills again.
Do something earth-shattering.
Seeing that Han Qian had left Mrs. Xi in the house to serve him for a day and two nights, he ordered them to find a craftsman from the Engineering Institute to make a pair of silver ring anklets with bells according to the size of Mrs. Xi's ankles. They got one from Zhao Ting'er.
When measuring Mrs. Xi's ankle with a piece of silk thread, Gao Shao, Tian Cheng and the others jokingly asked Han Qian if he wanted them to go to the market and buy a few donkeys to make soup so that they could have a good first round.
Han Qian kicked each of them.
The silver ring anklet was very easy to make, so Wushi Engineering College sent someone to deliver it.
I don’t know if it was Gao Shao and the others who specifically ordered that the anklets can be fastened with rivets, but the silver bells also have a two-layer hollow structure, making it difficult to insert foreign objects to stop the bells from ringing.
From then on, whenever the silver bell could be heard ringing in the yard, one would know that Xi Rong was walking around.
Seeing Xi Yong lift her foot and ask the craftsman to fasten the anklet and rivet it to death, Han Qian secretly thought in frustration, if he really had any thoughts about Xi Yong, wouldn't the guards guarding the yard be able to do it?
Through the ringing of the silver bell, could you hear the length of his time and the intensity of his movements?
Looking at Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Yang Qin and others standing aside and exchanging glances, he secretly thought that these guys were probably thinking about the same dirty thoughts. Han Qian thought to himself, why did he come up with this stupid idea to trap himself?
After the craftsman riveted the anklet to death, Han Qian couldn't wait to have his horse prepared and went to Guanyue Tower for a banquet.
Xi Rong washed herself and put on her underskirt. Under the gauze, her flesh was as bright as jade, and above her tube top, she revealed a rippling patch of snow-white.
Jianzhi Xi Rong is two years older than Zhao Ting'er, and her body has grown in all the places where it should grow. In addition to her bright and attractive face, her round buttocks and firm breasts also reveal a more alluring and ecstatic charm.
This made Han Qian feel more and more that it was a stupid idea to put a silver bell on Xi Yin's anklet.
Xi Rong rode on the horse, her snow-white slender ankles exposed under her skirt. As the horse's hooves trampled, the silver bell made a crisp sound, which was particularly eye-catching as she walked through the streets.
Xi Rong was still not used to this kind of "humiliation" that was almost public. When she walked into Guanyue Tower and saw the banquet guests in the building running over to salute Han Qian, they looked at her with such strange eyes that it made her whole body feel numb.
Feel uncomfortable.
It's just her tough temperament that forces her to fight against this uncomfortable feeling, which also makes her exude a fierce temperament.
Han Qian asked the shopkeeper to clear out the elegant house in the backyard of Guanyuelou. He also told the shopkeeper that he liked duck and asked the chef here to prepare more duck dishes for him to taste.
Even if there is no movement these days, Han Qian, as the governor, Guanyuelou would not dare to dissatisfy this request; Han Qian also did his part and asked the guards to block the passage in and out of the elegant house in the backyard to prevent other guests.
Come and disturb him if you have the chance.
Xi Rong didn't know why Han Qian meant such a move. Not to mention that Guanyuelou was not famous for cooking ducks, and there weren't many people raising ducks and poultry in Xuzhou. She thought maybe Han Qian really liked eating ducks in Jinling.
After Guanyuelou's waiter put a table full of dishes, Gao Shao led in two men dressed as boatmen and wearing straw sandals with mud on their feet. She saw clearly that one of them was walking with his brother.
Very close to Gao Baoshi, who brought the news that his brother had been killed by Han Qian, his beautiful eyes widened.
Gao Bao felt guilty when he saw Xi Rong staring at her fiercely. He was really worried that Han Qian, in order to please the beauty, would point out that he killed Xi Cheng and then hand him over to Xi Rong.
Han Qian saw Xi Rong's apricot eyes fixed on Gao Bao, looked at Xi Rong and said: "Xi Cheng will be loyal to Feng Changyu until his death, and he will act as a savior. At that time, there was a riot in the state prison, so I had no choice but to kill him; while Gao Bao sneaked back to Jingyun Village
, he was also following my orders and cooperating secretly so that I could capture Ji Kun - if you can't suppress this resentment, there seems to be no need for our cooperation to continue!"
Xi Rong took a deep breath before looking away from Gao Bao's face. She had never thought that the Han family and his son had already used Gao Bao and Feng Xuan for their use just one day after arriving in Xuzhou.
Already.
Xi Rong was quite familiar with Gao Bao, and she usually disdained his greedy nature. She thought that if he was caught by Han Qian, it would be normal for him to be greedy for life and afraid of death and be used by Han Qian, but Feng Xuan was very popular in Xuzhou.
With a righteous name, how could he easily betray Shan Yue and be used by the Han family and his son?
Han Qian motioned to Gao Bao and Feng Xuan sat down to talk.
Seeing that Han Qian was taking everything on his own head, and not just calling him to kill him to please the beauty, Gao Bao stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, sat down at the table with his buttocks bare, and felt anxious before the words came out of his throat.
Fall back.
Feng Xuan saw Mrs. Xi present and heard Han Qian say what kind of cooperation he had with Mrs. Xi. He was confused. He didn't know what kind of cooperation Han Qian and Mrs. Xi had secretly negotiated, and what orders he had for secretly summoning them this time.
.
Han Qian asked everyone to sit down and before raising chopsticks for the feast, he said:
"Mrs. Xi promised to lead the children of the Xi family to be loyal to Zuo Si within ten years. From now on, Feng Xuan, you must do everything possible to redeem the children of the Xi family who are scattered as slaves in various villages. I will give you the money needed."
Full support!”
After hearing what Han Qian said, everyone suddenly realized that Xi Rong was actually the only heir to the Xi family.
Although the tribes in Shanyue also have a tradition of passing on sons, the chieftain's sons are unworthy, or there are no male successors, and it is not that there are no examples of setting up female protagonists.
The most famous one is Xian Zhen, the wife of Qiao Kingdom who was known as the Holy Mother of Lingnan more than 400 years ago.
The Xi family used to be a wealthy family with a powerful surname no less powerful than the four surnames in the two states of Chenxu. However, after more than ten years of unremitting attacks by Ma Yuanheng, Feng Changyu and others, it can be said to have been destroyed at this time, and the remaining clan members were also destroyed.
He had been sold by Feng Changyu to the Chenxu and Shaoheng lands as a slave.
The Xi family has been destroyed, and Xi Yin's identity as the heir is useless. But if the Xi family's descendants can be reunited through redemption, won't the Xi family be able to rise from the ashes again?
At this time, Xi Rong's identity can play a vital role in making the children of the Xi family obey Han Qian's orders.
Feng Xuan's heart felt a little bitter. He understood that Han Qian wanted him to come forward to redeem the Xi family's children. On the one hand, he undoubtedly wanted to cover up others' eyes, but on the other hand, when the time came, more and more Xi family children would gather under his command.
On the surface, it seems that Feng Xuan's power in Xuzhou will become stronger and stronger, but in fact, he is under Han Qian's control getting tighter and tighter.
In the end, unless Mrs. Xi has different aspirations, he has no hope of getting rid of Han Qian's control.
When the Xi clan was completely defeated by Feng Changyu in the sixth year of Tianyou's reign, more than 3,000 clan members were sold to various places as slaves.
This small population, if placed in other places, would be nothing at all. After all, there are only three to five hundred brave men among them who can be used in battles. However, in Xuzhou, they can secretly gather the Xi clan people, and in the end they can
Through Mrs. Xi's efforts to regain the cohesion and centripetal force of the Xi clan, they will become a hidden force that cannot be ignored.
This is much more realistic than asking Feng Xuan to form a force that can compete with the Four Surnames in Xuzhou within three or four years without much foundation and being guarded and penetrated by the Four Surnames.
Much more feasible.
Feng Xuan couldn't refuse, even if he was reluctant, he could only nod and agree, and then talked about Feng Changyu's talk with him at Jingyun Village yesterday.
The four surnames could not refuse the conditions put forward by the new governor Han Daoxun, and agreed to use Feng Xuan and his men to form a fleet to transport Xuzhou products to Jinling and trade with Zuo Si's warehouse. After all, Feng Xuan had led his men by the Yuan River for many years.
There are also boatmen and helmsmen who make fiber drawing as their profession.
However, in addition to ensuring the existing fields in the village were cultivated, Feng Xuan mobilized all the available men, which was less than forty men, not to mention that Feng Xuan did not have a ship capable of transporting goods.
Feng Changyu found Feng Xuan, and each of the four surnames would provide two thousand-stone ships. With the standard of one stern sailor with a capacity of one hundred stone, plus the necessary guards, how could eight thousand-stone ships need one hundred men?
Feng Changyu's suggestion to Feng Xuan was to send 20 people from Feng Xuan's village, 20 people from each of the four surnames, to gather the manpower needed to build a fleet. When the time came to calculate the wages, Feng Xuan would be paid according to the 40 people.
That’s it.
In fact, he promised to let Feng Xuanxu receive the wages of twenty people for every boat trip.
Based on the labor cost of a boat tracker of two liters of japonica rice and ten cents per day, even if he sailed half of the time in a year, Feng Xuan would have received 60,000 to 70,000 cents in vain.
This is a huge sum of money in Xuzhou, a poor and remote country. You must know that Feng Xuan's village, with a small population of 200 people, may not have a balance of 300,000 to 50,000 yuan or 180 shi of food in a year.
"I have not asked Young Master for permission, and I dare not agree to Feng Changyu casually. I just told Feng Changyu to allow me to think about it for two days," Feng Xuan said.
"Go and reply to Feng Changyu and tell him that each of the four surnames in the fleet can have ten people, but your village has few people, so you should ask each of the four surnames to sell ten slaves to you at a low price to make up for the shortage of manpower, but don't deliberately mention it.
"The slaves of the clan," Han Qian said, "Also, even if the slaves are sold at a low price, you must first pay on credit with the fourth clan."
Feng Xuan's village currently only has a hundred strong laborers, regardless of gender. If it can acquire forty village slaves at once, its strength will be equivalent to a direct increase of 30 to 40%.
Although Feng Changyu sells village slaves, he will not sell the entire family of village slaves to Feng Xuan at a low price. Most of them will break up the village slaves' family members and sell them to Feng Xuan, creating a certain degree of restraint.
It doesn't matter, after all, these are just the first step; at the same time, you can't deliberately select slaves from the Xi clan to redeem them for the first time.
However, as long as the four surnames did not deliberately guard against Feng Xuan and made more trips to Jinling, Feng Xuan, with the support of Han Qian, secretly gathered more and more financial resources, and redeemed more and more village slaves, especially Xi among them.
There are more and more clan slaves, and they will soon gather into a rising force in Xuzhou that is not restricted by the four surnames.
Not only are the four surnames unaware of this power, but even Tanzhou cannot guard against it!
Thinking of this, Han Qian was quite proud. He picked up a piece of duck breast with his chopsticks, took a bite, frowned and said, "This doesn't taste right!"
Gao Shao, Tian Cheng and the others became panicked and said, "We specially asked people to keep an eye on the kitchen, and also had people do something to it?"
"It doesn't taste authentic, it's not drugged. Why are you so nervous?" Han Qian picked up another piece of duck braised meat, took a sip, and frowned even more, "Last time I came here, I was thinking about receiving the gift, but I didn't take it seriously.
Try Guanyuelou's dishes. The stewed flavor is a little sour. It seems that the cooking level of restaurants in Qianyang City needs to be improved urgently! Gao Shao, you send Feng Xuan away, Gao Bao leaves, and call the chef
Come here, I want to ask him where he learned his craftsmanship, which is so rough!"
Feng Xuan and Gao Bao looked at each other in confusion. They didn't know what Han Qian wanted to do, or maybe the owner of Guanyue Tower gave the young master a light gift that day? However, Han Qian had already ordered Gao Shao to send them away, and they were afraid of exposing their whereabouts.
If you dare to stay longer, please excuse yourself and leave first...
